Market Applications for Silanes - Marine

Marine

At conception stage, boatbuilders seek to get the best compromise between weight and speed. This requires extensive use of weight-saving materials such as wood, foam and composites which are mainly assembled with adhesives and sealants.

When it comes to Marine applications, adhesives and sealants are selected upon the following requirements:

• they are formulated to require limited surface preparations, simplifying operators work in shipyards
• they must provide outstanding mechanical performances especially if it is a raceboat that is built
• they must resist to moisture and saline environment.

Dynasylan^® silanes can enhance Adhesive & Sealant formulations to reach these criteria and
will provide the following benefits:

• they will contribute to solve surface preparation issues
• they will enhance mechanical performances and ease bonding of dissimilar materials
• they will provide long-lasting ageing resistance to face the demanding environment in which ships are due to evolve.